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If you listen, you can hear Labour's poll rating wane awayCredit:
FILIP SINGER

Years ago, before TV satire became an utterly pointless endeavour, Spitting Image broadcast a sketch involving various senior politicians as contestants on “Call My Bluff”. The phrase for which they each had to provide a definition was “Coming second in a by-election”. You can imagine the larks, as the wee David Steel puppet suggested the phrase actually meant “great political triumph” or some such.